Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been looking forward to auto-insurance refunds since November, when voters passed an initiative calling for a 20% cut in premiums for property and casualty coverage. But their anticipation turned to anger last week, when State Insurance Commissioner Roxani Gillespie declared that most Californians are "not going to get lower auto-insurance rates" as a result of the initiative...
...steps. At the same time, the Central Committee of the Communist Party, officially known as the Polish United Workers' Party, convened in Warsaw to discuss Jaruzelski's move. Poland's official news agency, P.A.P., reported that the President will send the Prime Minister's name to the Sejm, or lower house of parliament, early this week for ratification...
...flaws were in Hitler's overconfident detractors. The Nazi Party received strong support not only from the lower middle class but also from university students and professors. The existentialist Martin Heidegger joined the Nazi Party. Psychologist Carl Jung grew intoxicated with "the mighty phenomenon of National Socialism, at which the whole world gazes in astonishment." A young architect named Albert Speer found that Hitler's oratory "swept away any skepticism, any reservations...
...wasn't that Dunne lacked status. His grandfather was a grocer who built himself up to community pillar, and his father was a respected surgeon. Dunne went to Princeton University and perfected talking through his nose, the better to honk down the lower orders. But once a Harp always a Harp, a lesson driven home by another old institution, the U.S. Army. German whores, barracks mates with tattoos, the general cynicism toward military routine, all validated his own outlook. Truth be told -- and Dunne tells it -- he is fascinated by life on the wild side...
...House aides stage debates, which they call "scheduled train wrecks." Aides once invited opposing sides to lobby the President separately, but quickly realized that Bush prefers -- and benefits from -- live skirmishes. Bush asks questions during the back and forth, takes copious notes on White House pads and often asks lower-level officials for their views. "He doesn't want filters," said a participant. "He actually wants to sit there at the table and listen to Darman fight with Reilly." Darman argued in one meeting that the clean-air proposals were too expensive for the health and safety benefits gained...